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wood

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  1. So, re: Chief Baker ... I'm not gonna pretend to know what all went down in regard to his decision to not send swiftwater rescue resources to to Kerrville. And I don't particularly care to find out. But I can assure you it's not the slam dunk negligence that some including Charlie Kirk or some of my brothers and/or sisters at the AFL-CIO Local are making it out to be. I have my doubts it was even the wrong decision. For the folks saying Chief Baker was wrong to keep AFD resources here rather than ~100 miles away with severe weather incoming, you have to remember that Austin has its own severe flooding issues, and our closer neighbors also rely on us to help them out. It's not simple. Not ever. We don't have unlimited swiftwater rescue resources. Far from it. We have a handful of boats, and they get worked overtime in every heavy rain event in Austin and the surrounding area. And every time one of those boats leaves the station, the crew and the truck go with it. Thus, they are out of service for typical responses and leave a hole in the city's coverage. Had Kerrville, Kerr County, and the State lived up to their responsibilites, the disaster could have been averted, or at the very minimum, the human toll could have been drastically reduced. Period. Trying to put this on a Fire Chief close to 2 hours away is some astronomically stupid bullshit, esp in light of the incredible idiocy that went down out in Kerr County. But, of course, I understand that as a good little Nazi, that's his job, so that's what that POS is gonna do.
  2. That hat's prolly what got him elected.
  3. Yeah they're def loaded af. What I was getting at there was that Albon is also Thai, so they might see considerable marketing value in reacquiring him and marketing accordingly. But maybe not, as that market is probably not a huge concern for them.
  4. He could even take a 1 year sabbatical a la Fernando and go do other shit, race other series, etc.
  5. Doggett responds to Hot Wheels' idiotic comments comparing the flood response to a football game ... https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/video/lloyd-doggett-repsonds-greg-abbott-texas-flood-football-digvid
  6. Yeah if I had to bet, he'll re-up with the Bulls for 1 year.
  7. My view of George is that he's quick, and that's about it. His racecraft is a running joke, even in the F1 movie. You gotta be quick, but ya gotta be a lot more than that. He's not even top 6 in the current field imho.
  8. Aren't they Thai? I'm sure y'all can see where I'm going with this.
  9. LOL at least one of these doesn't belong in a sentence about elite drivers.
  10. That was my first thought as well, and Martin thinks that's it, too.
  11. Having talked to numerous small-town or county dispatchers calling us to request assistance in the middle of the night, my bet is that understaffing is the answer to that reporter's question. Numerous times I've been on the phone with these dispatchers when shit was blowing up on their end, and they were the only ones there, or maybe there were two of them. And sometimes the only person there is brand new to the job.
  12. https://bsky.app/profile/callmenash.bsky.social/post/3ltiaz4nhd222
  13. Sadly, in effect, it is. Morons get one vote, just like anyone else.
  14. Who/what is Ryan Hall? That's the thing. It doesn't appear to have been executed at all, except by the counselors who weren't given, well, any lead time at all. Exactly.
  15. I think the important lesson from the Station fire and Mystic having a plan approved just 2 days before this disaster (among others) is this: Having a 'plan' on paper to show an inspector is very different from actually practicing a plan so that it can be effectively implemented when the shit hits the fan, and having supervisors monitor situations closely enough to know when the plan should be executed. Yep.
  16. h/t @speed817 in the Leavitt thread.
  17. Also, re: this bit from theUSA Today article: I don't know why that figure surprises anyone. I said from the beginning that they would soon find out that there were a large number of people missing that they didn't even know were missing yet. With so many people being there for July 4 and the water coming in the middle of the night, it was always going to be in the hundreds. Worst case scenario.
  18. That little motherfucker seems to have missed the fact that we got the everloving shit kicked out of us. We fucking LOST. BADLY. And he's acting like we were a good team and won the fucking game. "We got this"? No, we don't fucking 'got' anything, you stupid idiotic little shitstain.
  19. Which show are you hearing this on?
  20. So, basically the way government in general should work.
  21. It's worked so well for them, why would they stop now? It's the same question my buddy always asks about COTA. The answer is the same.
  22. I'm sure there are many more posts that I could quote on this topic. And yeah, even as a member of that union local and a retired Austin ff, I don't understand the accusation ... but tbf, I stopped keeping up with AFD shit the second I walked out the CTECC doors after my retirement party 3 years ago. Never looked back. DGAF. And yeah, the writer of that posting (yes, I know them, and no, I'm not naming names) writes some pretty cringy shit. My uninformed guess based on past experience is that this is probably based on previous relations with said chief. Emergency resource management is not quite as simple as "They need it, so let's send it. Right now!", and they know that. ETA: Maybe something good will come from the mention that the State knew ahead of time and was mobilizing well in advance of the storm. Maybe there's some method to the author's madness after all.
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